Hmm... soo.. who believes in ghosts or lives in a haunted house? Anyone have any particularly spooky experiences to share that you can't explain?

For me, I'm skeptical. I've no real reason to believe in ghosts and I think a lot of people's stories are either exaggerated or deliberately ignoring more logical explanations.

The only story I have is when taking a picture of an old car of mine. It was taken with an old film camera and I no longer have it, but when it was developed there was an object seemingly inside the car diving over the rear seats into the front which looked rather like a person's head. Sure it was pretty freaky in the first instance, but in all likelihood it was probably how the light caught the camera or how it was developed.

A guy at work is 99.99% sure his house is haunted. He says not long after moving in he started seeing a shadow at the top of his stairs while watching TV at night.

He never said anything to his family about it because he didn't want them to think he was a nut.One night he spotted it, and as he looked towards it his wife said "so you see it as well?"

When his daughter was a kid she use to always talk about the 'cat lady' that visited her at night time.His son is about 20 and will not stay home alone because he is freaked out by it.

I was pretty skeptical about it all at first, but from some of them stories he has, it makes you think 'what if'He doesn't try to shove his beliefs about ghost down anyone throat. He is pretty quiet about it all.I don't see why he would make up any of it. He is really reserved about things and not the type of person to make up shit just for the sake of it.

I don't know whether ghosts and paranormal activity is real, but I personally would prefer to never come across it. I'd rather just not know.

Starting with my youngest: My sister and I shared a room and had bunk beds. We had a tall mirror on one of the walls. My sister would occasionally wake up and tell me that she saw a man with a cowboy hat standing in front of the mirror. There was a fire in our apartment once, and someone did die there.

My aunt and uncle used to get us free passes for snowboarding on the mountain, so I would invite a friend and spend the night at my aunt's house. This was a very old house, over 100 years old. That night, the dog started freaking out and running up and down the stairs, barking. I saw a flash, almost like a camera flash, from upstairs. It wasn't storming, it was quite odd and my friend saw the same thing.

My mother was in the house cleaning business for a while. One of the houses she cleaned was haunted. The dog would not go upstairs. I remember my mother telling me her cleaning supplies would be moved, and when she finally asked the owner about it, she said "oh that's just ___ joking with you."

I worked in a store that was haunted. One of the managers worked overnight, and he would hear whistling. Not just a steady whistle, but a tune. Another person had something grab her leg a few times. I actually saw him. It was early, around 5:00 AM, and I was putting tennis balls in a display up front. I heard tapping on the door, and when I looked, a man dressed in a flannel shirt and overalls gave me a friendly smile and waved. I called some of the guys up, and he was gone.

On a trip to Gettysbury, PA, myself a few classmates heard gunshots. Nobody else heard them, so I asked the tour guide about it. He told me that some people hear gunshots, and they believe we are hearing ghosts from the Civil War.

I can't say I really believe in the paranormal but I would like to believe some of it is real, I have the I'll believe it when I see/experience it attitude towards it, as I've never had a paranormal experience yet I always hold my doubts about it.

I do love reading stories about other peoples experiences, I've bought two books on haunted places in Canada and would like to purchase more and I occasionally go to a site which has a blog area for people to post their experiences. My favourite so far on that site to read is the ones that are about a shadowy figure wearing a fedora hat, it seems to be a fairly common one for people to post about, sometimes it is harmless and just watching, other times it actually attacks, and many have said they also saw red eyes.

What I truly hate about the Paranormal is that people that believe in it have a habit of ignoring any possible logical reason for the events, I don't have that issue when they are experience the event but moreso when they talk about it after, the worse ones are those that will just ignore any possible logical reason and will just keep going to it being paranormal.

It would be quite the experience to have something happen that is difficult to explain and I wouldn't mind having at least one during my lifetime as long as it doesn't cause terrible physical harm or cause costly damages.

Well, Where I grew up, everybody is superstitious, and they believe in Ghost, Haunted houses, spells, God, the Devil, heaven and hell...Well, they believe everything. Not me. I always found the thought of bodiless spirits floating around, bothering the living to be quite comical. I'm very skeptical about the whole thing, the day I experience something, is the day that I become a believer.

Well, Where I grew up, everybody is superstitious, and they believe in Ghost, Haunted houses, spells, God, the Devil, heaven and hell...Well, they believe everything.

I think people like that are much more susceptible to putting down anything they perceive to be abnormal to "ghosts" and leave it at that. I tend to find those people are quite closed-minded and would rather reach for "ghosts" etc. as the immediate reason for such things and discount quite quickly more logical explanations.

...the day I experience something, is the day that I become a believer.

I think as a skeptical person, as I said, it becomes much harder to experience something and put it down to paranormal means. I've experienced a lot of stuff which at first glance may be a bit paranormal, but when you logically think something over there are other more logical explanations. I get the impression that people who are adamant they have had paranormal experiences are usually quick to reach that conclusion and aren't too open to other potential explanations.

I'm not sure what to believe anymore. I have heard about some weird things happen in my house before, but those could just be illusions. I also heard a few ghost stories and stuff before. I remember being scared the whole night after hearing this one ghost story.

I don't believe in ghosts because I don't believe in souls. I think that when a person dies and can no longer engage in the world anymore, it is because the brain is no longer functioning. So I think everything that makes a person alive is attributed to the neural connections. After all, we have feelings because different levels of hormones determine how we feel. And we can think because thinking involves specific neural activities that work together. So if the anatomy and physiology are no longer doing what they are supposed to do, then how can one even feel and think?

That said, I still get scared at dark or dim places, because you can never tell what might be hiding and suddenly jump out at you . Plus there are a lot of unknowns out there, so it's hard to be certain to say there are absolutely no paranormal things out there. I'll still try to avoid strange places and stay at where I feel comfortable.

The house I lived in from my birth to age 3 was filled with paranormal activity. I have a picture I'll edit into this post later (hopefully) of the cabin my family was in over the summer with an apparition in the window. Great cabin built in 1973, if I'm remembering correctly, so it was very new to the surrounding land. The cabin is built on lands used for mining a reddish coloured rock which name has slipped my mind back in the 1800's.

That's not a minecraft reference or something is it Cheeseman?! lol That sort of thing would creep me out to no end, I doubt I'd sleep for a week.

I'm a very logical person, and I don't believe in the paranormal as it were. That doesn't mean I don't believe in anything though, I just tend to be able to think of a logical explanation for anything some people might call paranormal.

Unfortunately it also doesn't mean that I'm not scared after reading this thread, and it's quite realistically going to mean I can't get to sleep easily whether this stuff is real or not!

DannyB01 it is not Minecraft at all. The only thing Minecraft that leaves the Minecraft forum is my signature. I'm trying to upload the pictures now but Neoseeker isn't recognising them as .jpeg files.

Edit: Uploading on imgur.com since Neoseeker isn't having anything paranormal uploaded into my gallery without a fight.

Edit 2: With a huge fight I got them uploaded...

Spoiler:With the flash nothing was there

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Spoiler:With the flash nothing was there

Spoiler:I forgot to turn my flash on (was taken before the previous picture)

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Spoiler:I forgot to turn my flash on (was taken before the previous picture)

My Nikon I have isn't very good in low lighting and since the flash was off it destroyed the picture quality it should have had. If you zoom in it has a detailed face for an object that is transparent. If you want to know where my family were to debunk that it was a person... my mother and sister were fishing on the other side of the creek about 150-200 feet away and my father was tending to the fire about 25 feet away from the door and down a slight decline. I have no idea how it was there but there is no way it was living being.

I used to work on a TV show that involved ghost hunting. It was playing make-believe with a bunch of grown-ass men in the middle of the night. They would react and act surprised to every creak and crack of the house or building we were in, but it was all bullshit. They made it all up from what I can tell, it's all BS. I was in the midst of all this "ghost tracking" and never saw a single thing that would give me any legitimate inkling that there were any chance of it being real.